"But I often think we talk way too much in this society, that we consider verbalization a panacea that it very often is not, and that we turn a blind eye to the sort of morbid self-absorption that becomes a predictable by-product of it."

-- Dennis Lehane

#Eye Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes

“You can give yourself a headache trying to decipher the tattoos on a naked man whoâ€™s leaping up and down on a bed.”
“The Patriot Act was used against me in total contradiction to its stated purpose. Or perhaps it was the most logical use of the law, since it establishes a legal framework to crush free thinking and interrupt individual questioning of the government. It is the beginning of all dictatorship in America.”

Source : "Susan Lindauer: Secret Charges and The Patriot Act". Interview with Michael Collins, www.scoop.co.nz. March 10, 2009.
“Ripe bananas are the mark of a good produce section. A good produce section is the mark of a superior grocery store. A superior grocery store is the mark of a good man.”
“People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really are.”
“...the act of eating,which hath by several wise men been considered as extremely mean and derogatory from the philosophic dignity, must be in some measure performed by the greatest prince, hero, or philosopher upon earth; nay, sometimes Nature hath been so frolicsome as to exact of these dignified characters a much more exorbitant share of this office than she hath obliged those of the lowest orders to perform.”
“The higher the truth, the simpler it is.”
“It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.”
“I'm inspired by failure. The process of defeat â€“ picking yourself back up again is the hardest thing in the world.”

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